A happy start to the day to open the computer and see that we have a new member, 白日放歌须纵酒, which, according to Google-translate, means "day sing to be drunken," which is my favorite kind of day. Welcome, 白日放歌须纵酒.
There has never been a time like this at Public Occurrences. It is 9 am as this is written and Google Stats says there have been 979 pageviews today. In 2011 the daily average was 100. There have been 5,900 pageviews so far this month, the previous high, 4,700. In the last two hours: 109 visitors from China; the country in second place, the U.S., 9. Last 24 hours: 1,100 visitors from China, 160 from the U.S. This extraordinary traffic is being driven by the Chinese sites t.cn, club.knet, and weibo.